First Czech President Václav Havel commemorated in Minsk
Commemorative meeting dedicated to the cutural, civil and political activist took place in Minsk on Monday.
Belarusian
writers, journalists, civil and political activist, and musicians came there to
pay tribute to the outstanding person: writer Uladzimir Arlou, Deputy Chairman of the BPF
party Ryhor Kastusyou,
Chairman of the movement "For Freedom" Alyaksandr Milinkevich,
HR defender Valyantsin
Stefanovich, musician Lyavon
Volski. Deputy Ambassador of the Czech Republic Dagmar
Didenko-Novohradska and Slovakian Ambassador Marian
Servatka also
attended the event, informs BelaPAN.
Václav Havel (1936 - 2011) - a famous Czech
playwright, persecuted for free-thinking at the times of the Communist regime,
was imprisoned and considered a prisoner of conscience. After the Prague spring
1989 elected as President of Czechoslovakia, and after it was
liquidated in 1993 - the President of the Czech Republic. He stayed at this
position till 2003. He suffered from a severe illness during the last years of
his life. Václav Havel spoke in support of Belarusian democratic forces
many times.
Photo - ЕРА
